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Free choice of sickness funds in regulated competition: evidence from Germany and The Netherlands

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  • Gre[ss], Stefan
  • Groenewegen, Peter
  • Kerssens, Jan
  • Braun, Bernard
  • Wasem, Juergen

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  • Gre[ss], Stefan & Groenewegen, Peter & Kerssens, Jan & Braun, Bernard & Wasem, Juergen, 2002. "Free choice of sickness funds in regulated competition: evidence from Germany and The Netherlands," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(3), pages 235-254, June.
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    2. Gre[ss], Stefan & Focke, Axel & Hessel, Franz & Wasem, Jurgen, 2006. "Financial incentives for disease management programmes and integrated care in German social health insurance," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(2-3), pages 295-305, October.
    3. Thomson, Sarah & Busse, Reinhard & Crivelli, Luca & van de Ven, Wynand & Van de Voorde, Carine, 2013. "Statutory health insurance competition in Europe: A four-country comparison," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 109(3), pages 209-225.
    4. Henke, Klaus-Dirk & Schreyögg, Jonas, 2004. "Towards sustainable health care systems: Strategies in health insurance schemes in France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands ; a comparative study," Discussion Papers 2004/9, Technische Universität Berlin, School of Economics and Management.
    5. Greß, Stefan & Okma, Kieke G. H. & Wasem, Jürgen, 2002. "Private health insurance in social health insurance countries: Market outcomes and policy implications," Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Diskussionspapiere 01/2002, University of Greifswald, Faculty of Law and Economics.
    6. Stefan Greß & Diana Delnoij & Peter Groenewegen, 2003. "Exit and Voice in Dutch Social Health Insurance," ifo DICE Report, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 1(3), pages 47-53, 02.
    7. Markus Wörz & Reinhard Busse, 2005. "Analysing the impact of health‐care system change in the EU member states – Germany," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(S1), pages 133-149, September.
    8. Jan Kerssens & Peter Groenewegen, 2005. "Consumer preferences in social health insurance," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 6(1), pages 8-15, March.
    9. Kick, Markus, 2015. "The Price Premium Induced by Branding: A Health Care Case Study," EconStor Preprints 182504, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    10. Kick, Markus & Littich, Martina, 2015. "Brand and Reputation as Quality Signals on Regulated Markets," EconStor Preprints 182503, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
    11. Stock, Stephanie Anja Katharina & Redaelli, Marcus & Lauterbach, Karl Wilhelm, 2007. "Disease management and health care reforms in Germany--Does more competition lead to less solidarity?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 80(1), pages 86-96, January.
    12. Marcus Tamm & Harald Tauchmann & Stefan Greß & Jürgen Wasem, 2005. "Price Elasticities and Social Health Insurance Choice in Germany: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach," RWI Discussion Papers 0028, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
    13. Greß, Stefan, 2004. "Competition in Social Health Insurance: A Three-Country Comparison," IBES Diskussionsbeiträge 135, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of Business and Economic Studie (IBES).
    14. Bettina Becker & Silke Uebelmesser, 2010. "Health Insurance Competition in Germany - the Role of Advertising," Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 130(2), pages 169-194.
    15. Karolin Becker & Peter Zweifel, 2005. "Cost Sharing in Health Insurance: An Instrument for Risk Selection?," SOI - Working Papers 0513, Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich.
    16. Jonas B. Pendzialek & Dusan Simic & Stephanie Stock, 2017. "Measuring customer preferences in the German statutory health insurance," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 18(7), pages 831-845, September.
    17. Gulácsi, László & Kovács, Erzsébet & Oesterle, August & Boncz, Imre, 2007. "Verseny az egészségügyben. Egyesült államokbeli és nyugat-európai példák [Competition in health care. US and West European examples]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(5), pages 480-498.
    18. Marcus Tamm & Harald Tauchmann & Jürgen Wasem & Stefan Greß, 2007. "Elasticities of market shares and social health insurance choice in germany: a dynamic panel data approach," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(3), pages 243-256, March.

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